How I Used AI to Deepen My Yoga Philosophy Practice (And Why I'm Still Skeptical)
I'll be honest I'm not someone who uses AI a lot.
I use it to clean up my newsletters, catch my typos, and make sure my thoughts are landing the way I intend. But I always write first. My words, my tone, my rambling voice notes turned into something coherent. AI just helps me tidy the edges.
So when I tell you I turned to AI this summer for something I actually loved I want you to know that means something.
The Search That Led Me There
This summer I wanted to create a daily morning devotional built around the Yoga Sutras. Not a yoga flow, not a meditation app something that would give me dedicated time to sit with yoga philosophy. To study it, live it, let it anchor my days.
I had a word for the summer. I had an intention. I just needed a structure that fit.
So I searched. I googled. I went down rabbit holes online looking for something already out there.
Nothing quite fit what I was envisioning.
So I did something I didn't expect I turned to AI. I described exactly what I was looking for: my word for the summer, my personal intention, the depth and philosophical grounding I wanted. And I asked it to build me a daily devotional practice around the Sutras.
I started it in mid-May. I have not missed a morning.
What It's Given Me
Every morning I now have this quiet, focused time with yoga philosophy that feels completely mine because in a way, it is. I shaped it. I asked for it with intention. AI just helped me build the container.
It's become one of the most cherished parts of my day. Slow, absorbing, rooted in teachings I've studied for years but rarely get to simply sit with outside of a training or a class.
If you've ever wanted to go deeper with the Sutras but didn't know where to start this approach might be worth trying.
Where I'm Still Skeptical
Here's the thing though. I will stop reading a blog post mid-sentence if it has that AI cadence.
You know the one. Polished but hollow. Lots of words, no soul. Perfectly structured but somehow... absent. Like no one actually lived what they're describing.
I read to feel something. I want depth. I want the human side. I want the slightly-too-long sentence that only exists because a real person was thinking out loud when they wrote it.
When that's gone — when I can feel the absence of a real person behind the words I'm out.
So I share this Yoga Sutras story as someone who is still genuinely up in the air about AI in the broader sense. I don't think it's evil. I don't think it's the answer to everything either.
What I've landed on is this: AI in service of your practice is very different from AI replacing the part of you that actually matters.
Used with intention as a creative collaborator, a structure-builder, a starting point there's real good there. Used as a shortcut around the depth and humanness people are actually craving? That's where I step back.
Maybe the real question is just: who's driving?
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